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The slide continued in familiar fashion Tuesday night. How else was it to go? The offense was erratic and disjointed, the defense spotty and soft, the final result predictable.

And by the time Xavier had finished its thorough wrecking of this Butler basketball team at Hinkle Fieldhouse, the Bulldogs had reached a new low in what has become a nightmare of a season.

In one regard, you could see it coming from a mile away - because you've seen it running on repeat for much of the past two months. Then again, this was a team returning home after three games on the road, a team playing its biggest rival, a ...